Motivational Quotes

Family

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

- Pere, Legouve

Best Quotes about Family

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Gretry, Marmontel

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Macaulay, Rose

Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place.

Diane Ackerman

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

10.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19]

Bible

12.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Luce, Clare Boothe

13.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Oakley, Ann

15.

A small family is soon provided for.

Proverb, English

16.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

17.

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

18.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Schulz, Charles M.

19.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

20.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Howard, Jane

21.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Adler, Felix

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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

King, Florence

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Buffett, Jimmy

26.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

27.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

28.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Brown, Jerry

29.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Stark, Freya

31.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

32.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Ziglar, Zig

33.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Pritchett, V. S.

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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

38.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Janeway, Elizabeth

40.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Swindoll, Charles

41.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

43.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.